the fact that this happened despite everyone testing negative beforehand kinda kills all hope of fucking anything opening up soon
― frogbs, Friday, 31 July 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
It’s also infeasible to temp check all kids going into a school building every day! And if testing has a two-week backlog, like in my state, what is even the point?
― rb (soda), Friday, 31 July 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
I love Emily Oster, but her recent crowd-sourced analysis of spread at summer camps is.... interesting. On the one hand, it shows that with good safety protocols it’s possible to contain corona in most cases. On the other hand, summer camps are mostly outside, relatively unconstrained by space, a relative luxury, and can turn kids away. School are mostly inside, crappily ventilated, for all kids, and accept everybody.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 31 July 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
this is going to end up with everyone going to university of phoenix, which will then be acquired by betsy devos
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 July 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
I keep feeling like I'm going to hit my head on a door swinging open, and wake up and be the kid from Flight of the Navigator lying face down in a field
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 July 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
uh oh, a dangerous idea is spreading
https://i.imgur.com/lHKaVJD.png
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/01/thousands-berlin-protest-coronavirus-restrictions-freedom-day-march-cases-continue-rise
BERLIN — Thousands of largely mask-less demonstrators marched through central Berlin on Saturday chanting “We are free people” to the beat of Queen’s “We Will Rock You” in a coronavirus restrictions protest that was also riddled with virus-related conspiracy theories.The demonstration took place despite recent warnings from German health officials about a new rise in infections.Billed as a “Freedom Day,” the protest drew around 15,000 people, according to police figures cited by German media. The demonstration was organized by Querdenken 771, a group based in the western city of Stuttgart that emerged from weekly anti-lockdown demonstrations earlier in the pandemic. Members sometimes wear tinfoil hats or necklaces in what they say is a dig at being written off as conspiracy theorists.
The demonstration took place despite recent warnings from German health officials about a new rise in infections.
Billed as a “Freedom Day,” the protest drew around 15,000 people, according to police figures cited by German media. The demonstration was organized by Querdenken 771, a group based in the western city of Stuttgart that emerged from weekly anti-lockdown demonstrations earlier in the pandemic. Members sometimes wear tinfoil hats or necklaces in what they say is a dig at being written off as conspiracy theorists.
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 August 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Yes, we do have crazies here, and 1/8th of the seats in parliament are occupied by nazis. What, did you think Germany was a utopia?
― oder doch?, Saturday, 1 August 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
wow i did!
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 August 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
here's another sad story:
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/08/an-american-story
People sure do get hyped about their freedom to die horribly!
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Saturday, 1 August 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
ban drinking gasoline next
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 August 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
People sure do get hyped about their freedom to die horribly!― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Samstag, 1. August 2020 20:30 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Samstag, 1. August 2020 20:30 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
The state of Baden-Württemberg, which I live in, is the last place in Germany where it's legal to smoke tobacco in bars and restaurants. If you look at this map--
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichtraucherschutzgesetze_in_Deutschland#/media/Datei:Nichtraucherschutz_in_Kultureinrichtungen.svg
-- green meaning separate smoking rooms, yellow meaning smoking is fine at concerts, red meaning no smoking whatsoever -- I'm living in the gray area, which means no rules apply.
Stuttgart, home of the crazies, is the capital of Baden-Württemberg, which is an inexplainable, random coincidence imo.
― oder doch?, Saturday, 1 August 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
Karl, that story is infuriating.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 August 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
that's awful. and they had it for 2.5 months before dying.
― contorted filbert (harbl), Saturday, 1 August 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
yeah...the relentless nature of what happened, just one thing after another, when you can see it all coming from a mile away. it really is infuriating.
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 August 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
Jersey dumbasses
The owners of a New Jersey gym defied state coronavirus orders again Saturday, breaking into their own business to let customers inside days after they were arrested on contempt charges https://t.co/IrEehMNG9u— WCBS Newsradio 880 (@wcbs880) August 1, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 August 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
my sister in law's husband has "done some research" and concluded that he's not going to wear a mask, which means that he's not doing any shopping, which means that his wife has to do it while or in between looking after their 3 year old and 6 month old.
― neith moon (ledge), Sunday, 2 August 2020 12:24 (four years ago) link
Ugh, sorry
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
She should let him know that supermarkets are discouraging people from bringing children into stores so he'll have to have them while she gets the food in
― kinder, Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
"hmmm you know I did some new research and I guess masks are ok."
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
i'd just say "fuck you get to the shops" but I'm not married to him.
― neith moon (ledge), Sunday, 2 August 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51GOhlpriGL._SX383_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
Was that...meant for this thread?>
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 2 August 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
RESEARCH
― kinder, Sunday, 2 August 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
uncle (who is at risk) is now back to going to the pub but still gets my mum to buy his shopping. and they all went out for a meal (inside) yesterday (only people in there, fortunately)
― koogs, Sunday, 2 August 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
I wonder how Vale is doing. He's up there in years.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 2 August 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
We have coronavirus vaccines already. We already know it is safe enough to test in 30k people. Thousands are dying. So, after thinking lately, I agree w/@StevenSalzberg1—people deserve early access if they choose. Continue Phase 3 trials, but allow for compassionate use. #covid19 https://t.co/kwfFGV9uaZ— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 2, 2020
I think I hate this guy more than anyone who isn't a republican politician
― k3vin k., Sunday, 2 August 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
Feigl-Ding is worthy of the abysmal names thread.
― nickn, Sunday, 2 August 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
I want a smug-ass photomontage of myself looking smart in a newsy environment for my Twitter header so bad now
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 August 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
just hear those sleigh bells feigl-ding
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
would there even be a situation that would legitimately warrant giving out doses for compassionate use prior to the trials being completed?
I can definitely understand why you wouldn't want to do that, but just wondering if there would ever be a feasible situation where you'd have no other choice - like a pandemic with similar R number but higher mortality rate?
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
I don't check the COVID threads much anymore--did this get posted about face shields?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/07/31/coronavirus-mask-safety-questions-todd-pkg-tsr-vpx.cnn
I hate the way the headline ("experts now question if masks are enough") suggests one level of urgency and the piece another. Something new to be uncertain about.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 August 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
My takeaway from that piece is that most people probably don't need the face shield, but if you're teacher or someone else would will be around a lot of people who are not complying, the face shield wouldn't be a bad idea. Also that such PPE is a lot cheaper and easier to get now than it was at the start.
― Nhex, Monday, 3 August 2020 00:41 (four years ago) link
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Sunday, August 2, 2020 7:23 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lots of people used essentially this reasoning (with some important differences) advocating HCQ use outside trials early on. the most likely scenario would be the vaccine is perfectly safe but ineffective, in which case a lot of money is spent eroding public trust at a time where we can’t really afford it. there are also obviously disaster scenarios where the vaccine is unsafe and then no one ever wants to take a vaccine again
I normally wouldn’t signal boost guys like eric dingleberry or whatever his name is, he’s like the krassenstein of public health, but a couple of people who should know better are substantively engaging
― k3vin k., Monday, 3 August 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
I've been seeing a lot of adverts for face shield as fashion accessory coming out of china. I do wonder how this sort of thing will become part of every day life in different parts of the world. Mask wearing was already pretty common in East Asian countries before the pandemic. I could see it persisting in certain contexts longs after this pandemic subsides, and maybe face shields will become part of that.
This was one of the more fashion forward face shields I've had pointed at me.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001274903185.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.4c413c00XmWgUs&mp=1
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 3 August 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
Uhhh re that story about the ASU prof, jfc:
so tl;dr on the sciencing_bi thing for people that aren't scientists or do not care:it seems like Bethann, famous for botching MeTooStem, ran an account where she cosplayed an indigenous anthro prof at ASU, but incredibly was only exposed after having the account die of covid-19— aspiring leftist academic (@endlesswario) August 2, 2020
― JoeStork, Monday, 3 August 2020 02:36 (four years ago) link
holy shit
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 3 August 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link
Airplane look today ✈️ stay safe 🌸 pic.twitter.com/yOSkFDIJCq— Pamela Anderson (@pamfoundation) July 22, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 August 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
Short of a family member falling seriously ill there's no way I'm going anywhere near an aeroplane any time soon. (and no guarantee that the Australian government would let me out even if I did have a reason) However a plane is definitely a context where I would wear a face shield.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 3 August 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
morbidly fascinated on the ASU-professor hoax upthread
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 August 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link
we live in hell
― k3vin k., Monday, 3 August 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
what’s the latest on advil + covid
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 August 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
I haven’t seen anything that has convinced me I should think any differently about them
― k3vin k., Monday, 3 August 2020 05:18 (four years ago) link
does . . . that mean they’re okay to take or not?
(thanks)
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 August 2020 05:24 (four years ago) link
it’s probably fine but tylenol/acetominophen/paracetemol works, is better on your stomach and doesn’t have any question marks around it, is how i look at it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 August 2020 08:54 (four years ago) link
That’s the advil + covid cavil covered
― Rishi don’t lose my voucher (wins), Monday, 3 August 2020 09:15 (four years ago) link
uk tv has adverts saying that the nhs has said it's fine to continue to use ibuprofen (advil) and paracetamol.
and then you look closer and the advert is a nurofen advert, a british enhanced ibuprofen brand...
(ibuprofen has *slightly* different uses to paracetamol - it's better for muscle aches, swelling as it's an Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID))
― koogs, Monday, 3 August 2020 09:30 (four years ago) link
ime paracetemol worked brilliantly. however you do have to be strategic with the timing. it works very well until it doesn’t, and then you really want a re-up. the most important one really is the one right before bed. there were a few nights where it was bad enough that i actually took one again in the middle of the night, counting that as my “morning” one.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 August 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link
i spent way too long reading about that sciencing_bi thing and then fell down the worm Twitter, er, wormhole
― kinder, Monday, 3 August 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
what the hell is wrong with people?!?!
― contorted filbert (harbl), Monday, 3 August 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link